Example sentences of "[verb] up the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Broker Cazenove , responsible for marketing the UK tranche of the share sale , failed to drum up the same level of enthusiasm exhibited in other centres . |
| 2 | In this chapter we will channel our energies into opening up the contradictory facets of our personalities and explore the different voices , different tones of voice , that these contradictions make available to us . |
| 3 | Pioneering scientific work is now opening up the immense diversity of sensory worlds experienced by other creatures : extraordinary worlds which we may never be able to enter , but which we can at least start to appreciate through our awareness of animal " supersenses " . |
| 4 | Sheer walls thirty feet high enclose you , the way upstream being a clamber up the smooth lip of a nine-foot dry waterfall that takes you into Upper Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 5 | Abercrombie and fellow practitioners who prepared plans for the reconstruction of British cities after the war , and planning officers up and down the country who drew up the first batch of development plans after 1948 , worked to a common assumption : once the new urban land use pattern had been established , city form and structure would settle down into a steady state . |
| 6 | Wolsey 's clerks drew up the necessary letters of accreditation , warrants and bills for the exchequer . |
| 7 | Certainly some people , particularly those who drew up the initial list of candidates , tried to gain advantage by appealing to tribal loyalties , but that led them to include candidates who were not Zuwaya , or not Magharba , in the hope of widening their mass appeal . |
| 8 | This , as Henry looked at it , the piped organ music swelling through the chapel , seemed to sum up the complete irrelevance of English literature . |
| 9 | Herbert also penned the verses which have come to sum up the general fate of such investigations : |
| 10 | He lined up the dead centre of the target and scored with a long , spiralling burst . |
| 11 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 12 | But Andebraham Giorgis , who heads up the educational division of the EPLF , is as interested in talking about the achievements and challenges of education as about the difficulties resulting from the war . |
| 13 | Between them Locke and Newton built up the mental picture of the universe which the educated classes in the eighteenth century absorbed as incontrovertible truth . |
| 14 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 15 | I much regret that such a new Member of Parliament should have picked up the churlish habits of other Labour Members . |
| 16 | From the same papyri we learn that the Ptolemies had picked up the well-known Sheikh of Transjordan , Tobiah , to command the military settlers in his territory . |
| 17 | Below the soft throb of the music , his increased sense of hearing had picked up the quiet click of the outer door to his private suite being closed . |
| 18 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 19 | It is a familiar , yet penetrating , criticism of free market economies that the imperatives companies face to satisfy the adolescent greed of the financial markets and the escalating expectations of shareholders — or else prepare for predators — has diminished the scope of strategic planning to buffing up the next set of interims . |
| 20 | The trouble is that someone has torn up the only copy of the poem that there is . |
| 21 | She was wiping a crust of bread round the inside of her dish to catch up the last drops of broth . |
| 22 | It can be argued that mass communications have simply speeded up the whole process of change enormously , rather than imposed a massive and rigid uniformity . |
| 23 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 24 | ‘ Of course , we have n't time to give it more than a catlick , ’ she came to realize as we staggered up the grand flight of stairs to the first floor . |
| 25 | The iron melts , picking up the correct amount of carbon from the coke , and runs out of the tap-hole at the bottom . ’ |
| 26 | Juliette bent down and began picking up the smashed pieces of china . |
| 27 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 28 | As he went up behind her , step by step , eyes fixed on the sensuous movements of her dark young limbs , he half noticed the seemingly inordinate number of doors which opened on to the landings and he could not avoid picking up the predominating odour of curry . |
| 29 | These ‘ gorses ’ filled up the odd corners of parishes , and may be quickly spotted on the Ordnance map . |
| 30 | She lay , tense and unrelaxed , soaking up the surprising strength of the autumn sun while the Portuguese Grand Prix was run on the testing Estoril track . |